Confluent

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  • adjective. Flowing together; blended into one.
  • adjective. Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.
  • noun. One of two or more confluent streams.
  • noun. A tributary.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams.
  • In anatomy, having grown or become blended together, as two bones which were originally separate.
  • In botany and zoology, blended into one: us, confluent leaves.
  • In pathol: Running together: as, confluent pustules.
  • Characterized by confluent pustules: as, confluent smallpox.
  • Rich; affluent.
  • noun. A tributary stream: as, the Mohawk is a confluent of the Hudson.
  • noun. A joining or confluence, as of two streams.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.
  • adjective. Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
  • adjective. Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface.
  • noun. A small steam which flows into a large one.
  • noun. The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
  • adjective. (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
  • adjective. Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
  • adjective. (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a branch that flows into the main stream
  • adjective. flowing together
  • Word Usage
    "I ought to have sent to warn the police and the health officers of the city, for I was sure that the man was suffering from what is commonly called confluent smallpox."
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    divergent  
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    branch  
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    fluent  pursuant  truant  
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